Slogan

The Aftermarket. Ain't the original...

Hatman

I must be the Renaissance man at my job. I wear so many hats here. I am a salesperson. I help receive products and ship products. I also created the website. I know I don't do much with it now but it is my design. Without inspiration and time, it is hard to find myself wanting to do anything with it. I also do installs. This includes walking the job to see what is needed, create and send out proposals, do the install, and follow up with tech support afterwards. I also coordinate hardware needed and scheduling of the other installer needed for jobs. I also manage in its entirety our ebay online operation. It is hard to think of what I do here and the only way I get more money is from the percentage I get off of the profit of eBay and the money I get from installs. Perhaps the boss looks at me when I am not doing ebay or installs as a low supplier of help and service, because I've not seen a raise in 10 years. The boss's second person in command working here makes $2 more than I do just in hourly pay. I solve computer problems, cost problems, figure out easier and more efficient ways to do things, I box up display units better than anyone, I make price signs best, I showed the boss how to sell on ebay, then on Amazon. I don't know what I am doing here, besides being someone's b*tch. I hate how I feel confined to this job because of the economy and my finances and schooling and scheduling. I pray there will be a day I will walk out of this job forever. Until that day I have to vent about it here. Until that day, Tis only a dream.

I give up

<p>Sometimes giving up is the best thing. Today I gave up my stresses and potentially frustrating situations up to God. I got through the day with a smile on my face and the joy of my wife in my heart. I need days like this that when obstacles occur, it isn't the end of the world. Just an opportunity to fix and overcome things. I should delight in the trials for God gets me through them, if I would just seek Him.

Shaking my fist at thee

Damaged is this company. I see how the boss and owner sits up on high, trying to micromanage the company. He lives on cake and eat it too thinking. How can a company run smooth with an owner who is the manager who doesn't manage? This is a man who's thoughts run so fast that he is incapable of finishing verbal sentences at times. Spazzy is what we call him. Frustrating.

He is in such an elevated sense of urgency and control he cannot delve deep into any concept. His mind skims the surface. How can a company ever find growth without clear and strong guidance and management.

And what about vision? He has no imagination. Change and evolution are four letter words. I don't know if I could do better in his shoes but I am sure I can't do worse.